How to mint new jettons

In order to mint new jettons, that particular Jetton must be mintable. Otherwise, it’s impossible. Next, only mintable Jettons are considered.

Minting is not a specified operation in any of the existing TEPs. Its implementation is left to the developer’s choice. The following typescript code example is based on the minting implementation in Notcoin jetton minter contract. This example contains a manual assembly of all the necessary messages and is useful for studying their possible structure.

import { Address, beginCell, internal, toNano } from "@ton/core";
import { TonClient, WalletContractV4 } from "@ton/ton";
import { mnemonicToPrivateKey } from "@ton/crypto";

async function main() {
    const jettonMasterAddress = Address.parse('<JETTON_MASTER_ADDR>');
    const receiverAddress = Address.parse('<RECEIVER_ADDR>');
    const destinationAddress = Address.parse('<WALLET_ADDR>');

    // let's add some forward_payload
    const forwardPayload = beginCell()
        .storeUint(0, 32) // 0 opcode means we have a comment
        .storeStringTail('Mint')
        .endCell();

    // Forming the master message
    // internal transfer is also unspecified by the standard, but there is a suggested format in TEP 0074
    const masterMessage = beginCell()
        .storeUint(0x178d4519, 32) // opcode for jetton transfer-internal
        .storeUint(0, 64) // query id
        .storeCoins(toNano(5)) // jetton amount, amount * 10^9. That is an amount we want to mint
        .storeAddress(jettonMasterAddress) // from_address. For minting could be any. The Jetton wallet will check from context that the sender is the Jetton master contract and accept the transfer.
        .storeAddress(destinationAddress) // response destination
        .storeCoins(toNano('0.02')) // forward_ton_amount - if >0, will send notification message
        .storeBit(1) // either forward_payload
        .storeRef(forwardPayload) // we have forward_payload, store it as a reference
        .endCell();

    // forming the mint message
    const mintMessageBody = beginCell()
        .storeUint(0x642b7d07, 32) // opcode for mint
        .storeUint(0, 64) // query id
        .storeAddress(receiverAddress) // the user's regular wallet address
        .storeCoins(toNano(0.1)) // Toncoin intended to user's Jetton wallet
        .storeRef(masterMessage) // internal transfer message
        .endCell();

    const mintMessage = internal({
        to: jettonMasterAddress,
        value: toNano('0.1'),
        bounce: true,
        body: mintMessageBody
    });

    // connect to your regular wallet
    const client = new TonClient({
    endpoint: 'https://toncenter.com/api/v2/jsonRPC',
    });
    const provider = client.provider(destinationAddress);

    const MNEMONIC = process.env.MNEMONIC;
    if (!MNEMONIC) throw new Error("Set MNEMONIC to a test mnemonic (testnet).");
    const keyPair = await mnemonicToPrivateKey(MNEMONIC.split(" "));
    const walletContract = WalletContractV4.create({
        workchain: 0,
        publicKey: keyPair.publicKey,
    });

    // send the mint message through your wallet
    const seqno = await walletContract.getSeqno(provider);
    await walletContract.sendTransfer(provider, {
        seqno: seqno,
        secretKey: keyPair.secretKey,
        messages: [
            mintMessage,
        ],
        });
}

void main();

However, there is an SDK that allows you to avoid manually creating all the necessary messages. An example of how it can be used to send the mint message is provided below:

import { Address } from '@ton/core';

import { AssetsSDK, PinataStorageParams, createApi, createSender, importKey } from "@ton-community/assets-sdk";

async function main() {
    const NETWORK = 'testnet';
    const api = await createApi(NETWORK);

    const keyPair = await importKey(process.env.MNEMONIC!);
    const sender = await createSender('highload-v2', keyPair, api);

    const storage: PinataStorageParams = {
        pinataApiKey: process.env.PINATA_API_KEY!,
        pinataSecretKey: process.env.PINATA_SECRET!,
    };

    const sdk = AssetsSDK.create({
        api: api,
        storage: storage,
        sender: sender,
    });

    const JETTON_ADDRESS = Address.parse('MY_JETTON_ADDRESS');
    const jetton = sdk.openJetton(JETTON_ADDRESS);

    const RECEIVER_ADDRESS = Address.parse('RECEIVER_ADDRESS');
    await jetton.sendMint(sender, RECEIVER_ADDRESS, 1200000n);
}

void main();

Finally, you can use web services as TON MINTER and avoid writing code, just follow the guides.